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Why does relationships break more often nowadays?

This is happening with all sorts of relationships - parents & children, husband & wife, friends, etc. etc.

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  • 2 decades ago
    Favorite Answer

    Not that many people marry for love these days. We don't have the same respect for marriage as they did back in the day. Greed and status are the main reasons why people marry. Having affairs is just to easy to come by.

    Friends tend to grow apart or one friend might betray the other's trust.

    Most parent child relationships that end tend to do so because they arleady had a strained relationship during the chid's upbringing or the family is just too dysfunctional where it's just simpler to walk away.

  • 2 decades ago

    Sentiment these days has been replaced with materialistic values, making it more difficult in an essence to appreciate people for more concrete values such as kindness, intelligence and ability. These days, all affection and adoration is only caused by highly superficial ventures and not because of legitimate love or compatibility.

    Thus this causes almost all relationships to be 'artificial'; either non-existent in reality, or a facade for a lack thereof.

    Source(s): Observation.
  • Anonymous
    2 decades ago

    because nowadays people do not seem to have the same feeling of loyalty and respect for people, we have become a culture where we allow it to be too easy for us all to walk away when things get to tough, rather than dealing with a situation. unfortunatly as the generations move on the more we all seem to have an aversion to commit on whatever relevent level,we all find it far easier just to walk away and move onto the next available thing or person to replace whatever we have just walked away from. people just dont seem to want to make an effort and try anymore, prefering to live in this "just have a laugh in life" culture and feelings and emotions now always seem to take second place in favour of this life is a party lifestyle.

  • Troy
    Lv 5
    2 decades ago

    People are increasingly selfish.They forget that to make a relationship work you have to compromise & respect your partners feelings.Putting someone elses feelings 1st is Love.

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  • ?
    Lv 4
    5 years ago

    optimistic, a form of relationship is a danger, by using fact I unquestionably have experienced it. I gave examples below, the brother/sister chum is the 1st occasion. on the comparable time, there'll consistently be some style of sexual/love techniques floating around, inspite of in the journey that they no longer in any know take place exterior of one's own techniques. you prefer to understand journey, so authentic it somewhat is mine. I undergo in techniques one male chum I had on the comparable time as i became authentic right into a youthful person. I no longer in any know had any interest in this guy, he grew to alter into an exceedingly outstanding person, clever, friendly, and humorous. I knew him for form of two years, so the in complication-unfastened words time we had grew to alter into to strengthen a brother/sister relationship. Had we regularly occurring one yet yet another for longer, probably diverse themes would have better. you observe, with each close male chum I unquestionably have ever had, there has been some sexual stress to a minimum of one degree or yet yet another. there is one i understand, and we've not in any know accomplished some thing somewhat, yet we did like one yet yet another very lots at one time, and have been thinking courtship, yet we did no longer attempt this throughout the time of any case. I fell in love with him on the time, and it grew to alter into organic and organic love by using fact it did no longer sprout from any somewhat touch, no. pondering that then, I unquestionably have had diverse male pastimes and he's now married with toddlers, inspite of the shown fact that the reality is that I no longer in any know fell <out of affection> with him. I however have techniques for him, yet i do no longer tell him. I observe of his marriage and kin. As for different close male acquaintances I unquestionably have had, some I unquestionably have kissed, and with others it grew to alter into better than kissing. it somewhat is a few thing i'm no longer chuffed with, and alhamdulillah i finished this habit 14 years in the previous. i'll no longer in any know return to that, it somewhat is shameful. If i'm no longer close to to to a male, and we are in basic terms acquaintances, then no, there is not any sexual stress.

  • 2 decades ago

    honestly its the generation we hav now. NO ONE knows what respect and honesty are! no one acts normal now adays. different generation, and i hate it. i like the old school ways.

  • Miss J
    Lv 7
    2 decades ago

    This is due to a lack of communication.

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